Millennials Are Bored At Work

Trending News: Workers In The Do-What-You-Love Generation Hate Their Jobs

Why Is This Important?

Because you're not the only one bored at work.

Long Story Short

A Gallup poll looking into the work habits of America's most populous age group, Millennials, found that they're the least engaged with their jobs. They also surprisingly don't rate having fun at work as high of a priority as Baby Boomers.

Long Story

The generation born between 1980 and 2000 are less engaged in their jobs than any other generation. The new Gallup poll reports that "only about three in 10 are emotionally and behaviorally connected to their job and company," and as many as 55 percent are "not engaged" at all.

Why is this happening? Perhaps because Millennials have wandering eyes. Some 60 percent of millennials are open to a different job opportunity — 15 percent higher than workers from different generations. And all this job-hopping is costing the U.S. economy. Gallup estimates that millennial turnover costs the economy $30.5 billion annually.

When you picture Millennials on the job you probably imagine bearded guys playing X-Box while sitting atop a medicine balls — but as fun as that sounds, work being a "fun place to work" isn't as high on the priority list for Millennials as it is for their parents' generation. They prefer having the opportunity to learn and grow, a quality manager and overall good company management.

“Millennals just want a job that feels worthwhile — and they will keep looking until they find it,” explains the report.

Coming from a Millennial here, there's nothing wrong at all with wanting to change up your job if you don't like it. Work hard, make your mark, and move on up. Or you could just be stagnant and settle, totally up to you.

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Is it that Millennials are unengaged because they're naturally that way or can jobs do better to grab their attention?

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All this boredom at work is resulting in Millennials changing the world with new ideas and innovation. You're welcome.